Marketing, as a discipline, used to be tied to communications — a career for the 'creative' types. And while creativity is still very much a part of it, marketing has shifted to incorporate more scientific, technical and strategic responsibilities.

Yes, as software eats the world, demand for skilled developers remains high. But software’s pervasiveness -- from the server to the cloud to the coming onslaught of wearable and IoT devices -- means far greater responsibilities for software engineers and the need to constantly expand your skills.

There are waves that are converging that indicate 2016 could be the year when the impulse buy will be more likely than ever before based on a few simple buying drivers. These include the ability of marketers to provide the right offer at precisely the right time and the rise of mobile payment technology.

There always seems to be tension in the VAR-vendor relationship, likely due to a miscommunication about expectations and goals between parties. This tension boils down to the fact that VARs are struggling to choose the vendors that best align with their business model and their go-to-market goals and objectives.

In an effort to help increase its own talent pool and the global developer community, Progress Software today launched Progress Academy, an education program to help new developers quickly acquire application development skills.

Coming on the heels of agile development—a term first coined in 2001—is DevOps, which was first popularized in Belgium in 2009. Today, 15 years into agile development and six years into DevOps, it is becoming clear that these intertwined terms are quite broad, encompassing attitude and approach, platforms, tools and solutions. Agile development, with its Scrum meetings and quick turnaround cycles, did speed development but made deployment more difficult, because many organizations just couldn’t support fast cycle deployment.

Were you caught off guard by Facebook’s abrupt announcement on Jan. 28 statement that its Parse mobile backend as a service (MBaaS) was going to be shut down? You’re not alone. And we’d like to hear from you.

With the "borderless office" becoming a ubiquitous phenomenon, today's users demand mobile access to their enterprise applications, which opens up an important market opportunity for developers and software companies. The problem is that building individual native apps for each mobile platform is a complex -- and therefore expensive -- proposition. And it's one that can negate the value of a developer's time and effort, despite the end user demand.

Progress Software this week delivered the latest release of its Telerik DevCraft suite, a .NET toolbox for Web, mobile and desktop development that introduces support for AngularJS 2, the popular JavaScript development framework.

Thanks to the increasing number of marketing automation tools available today, picking the right platform is a challenge for even the savviest organizations. These 12 inquiries can help you cover all of the bases before you invest in new marketing tech.

The traits frequently keeping women from reaching their professional potential are the same traits that make them great leaders: empathy, the ability to multitask, and encouraging greatness in others. Today’s young workers are looking to be part of something larger, to make a difference in the world. They see wrongs and want to eradicate them. This is precisely where female leaders excel. They listen and motivate teams to achieve great things. Women bring a basket of skills to the marketplace that are hard to match, but more importantly, they are perfectly aligned to capitalize on the needs of a contemporary workforce.

Back in December, Google finally released a beta version of Angular 2, bringing performance improvements through offline compiling, pre-rendering, and view caching. Matt Werner spoke with TJ Van Toll, a developer evangelist with Telerik/Progress Software to share his thoughts on the new release. Telerik was involved in developing Angular 2 and has implemented the language into their KendoUI and NativeScript products due to enormous customer demand.

The 2015 CMS Awards were the most broad yet, with new categories being added into the mix to reflect the dynamic world of web content management. The award, "Best CMS for Marketers" was one such addition. Following the nominations stage, it was a closely fought battle between three big players; Sitecore, Kentico and Sitefinity. All worthy candidates of course, but the people could choose only one winner. I'm pleased to announce that the Best CMS for Marketers 2015 is...Sitefinity.

Organizations increasingly rely on business data to gain valuable insights to improve internal operations and predict and reflect on customer behaviors. Whatever the environment, data is an essential asset that must be managed, accessed, and analyzed to provide useful information towards a business goal or strategy.

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